A remake of The Longest Yard, moves the story from the US to England and switches from American football to soccer.
Danny "Mean Machine" Meehan used to be captain of England's team. He has turned into a drunk and assaulted two police officers. He is sentenced to prison for three years. The prisoners and guards give him a hard time for letting down England during a World Cup game.
The prison warden, who is a gambler, wants Danny to coach his team. Danny agrees to it because he wants to get out after one year, instead of three.
When Danny helps an inmate getting beat up by the guards, he gets the some of the prisoners on his side. His biggest problem is trying to get the white prisoners to join the black prisoners on his team.
Once he overcomes that hurdle the rest of the movie is about Danny trying to blend the prison misfits into a team that can beat the guards.
Danny explains why he threw the World Cup game. He made a deliberate foul on the Germans because he was so far in debt to gamblers. he was given a choice : deliberate foul or wheelchair for life.
Danny has a choice. Will he let the prisoners down and throw the game again or will he betray the warden and the head gangster in the prison?
Not a bad movie but it wasn't as good as the original Longest Yard.
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